Hi Jean-Claude,

I'm brand new to this list (these were the first posts I received today) and
I'm looking forward to lots of wonderful info.

Your offer of sharing nature's bounty sounds wonderful -- I hope there are
folks out there who can reciprocate.  But I wonder what the prohibitions
might be on shipping personally gathered and "unprocessed" (except for
drying) foodstuffs (plant material, especially) out of the country, with an
eye to concerns on pest distribution.  You probably should become very
familiar with the regulations before attempting.  Within country is probably
just fine, tho.

FYI, everyone, I'm a type 1 diabetic who has been following an LC diet for
about a year and having great results.  I also became lactose intolerant at
the same time of diabetes onset, and now I realize that my diet is actually
a Paleo diet (no grains, no dairy, no legumes, yes meat, yes veggies (low
carb) and yes nuts and berries).  So I eagerly anticipate learning more from
you all.

Best,

Linda
-----Original Message-----
From: Ingrid Bauer <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Saturday, May 29, 1999 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [P-F] Where is Everyone?


>I am lucky to live close to a natural park in the west coast of Canada,
here
>we have an abundant source of wild berries (salmonberry, salalberry,
thimble
>berry, saskatoon, trailing rasberry, blackberry , cherries, pacific
>crabapples , purple cap raspberry, huckleberry, blueberry and more)
>i would like to share the precious nutrients present in thoses berries (do
>somebody know if omega 3 fatty acids could be founds in the seeds of thoses
>berries?) with other high quality foods seekers.
>I am proposing myself to harvest them in bigger quantities than usual (i am
>doing it for years for my family and friends) and dry them to make them
>available to you , and will be so glad to have in exchange other wild foods
>from your aeras or dificult to find domesticated fruits and nuts (like
>unprocessed olives , pinenuts, black walnuts ,pecans , butter nuts and
>alike...)
>Money exchanges could be a possibility too but harvesting wild berries is
>rather time consumming so might make them rather expensive. We could base
>our exchange on time spent to harvest and process them. At least dry good
is
>cheap to ship considering the energy stored in them.
>I have possibility to dry salmons, halibuts ,shrimp  and other wild sea
>foods.
>Before starting to harvest like a maniac i would like to know what kind of
>interest my proposition arouses .
>thanks for answering
>jean-claude
>